I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.


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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
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I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
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As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
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